Apparently, I'm very good at firing a gun without blinking, which is unusual. That's why so many action characters have to wear sunglasses during shoot-out scenes. That's my party trick.
One of the great tools we use in acting is the idea of immediacy, that the audience gets to see you witness something apparently for the first time, so you create a lot of tools to kind of trick yourself into making it appear something is happening for the first time.
The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.
Regret is something you’ve got to just live with, you can’t drink it away. You can’t run away from it. You can’t trick yourself out of it. You’ve just got to own it.
Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it's work. . . Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter of an abandoned neighborhood can stand for everything.
Success travels in the company of very hard work. There is no trick, no easy way.
The trick about the theater is at the end of the day you cannot take any of it personally.
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
The trick is growing up without growing old.
Every life has a destiny. . . the trick is to discover it before then end of your life. Otherwise, you will have too many regrets.
There is no trick to writing a believable love story, a heartbreaking scene or real-sounding dialogue. All you need is to tell the truth. It’s always heartbreaking.
The first trick I bought at Macy's was a little wooden board where a quarter would appear and disappear.
All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.
You must acquire the trick of ignoring those who do not like you. In my experience, those who do not like you fall into two categories: the stupid, and the envious. The stupid will like you in five years time, the envious never.
I've found you can go on writing in the dark, and that the act of writing itself, that mysterious, dangerous, intoxicating, absorbing, nourishing magician's trick, that act of creation is its own light.
An old trick well done is far better than a new trick with no effect.
All businesses make mistakes. The trick is to avoid large ones.
The trick is this: keep your eye on the ball. Even when you can't see the ball.
In training, don't be afraid to be an oddball, eccentric, or extremist. Only by daring to go against tradition can new ways of training be learned. The trick is recognizing quickly when a new approach is counterproductive.
The trick is to never lose hope!